Edit the On-Screen Status Messages?

Capeman

Ok, i have a question that i cant find the answer to.

The onscreen status messages (the one that pops up when a rom loads saying what emulator and joystick you are using, along with retroarch functions like hard pause, reset and others) - Is there a way to customize which onscreen messages you see?

I want to disable the load message because i know what game/emulator/joystick i'm using, and because it's annoying... The only status messages i want to see are RESET and Disc Eject/prev/next for psx. I want to hide all others.

This way i can keep the interface clean and no-computery looking, but still see messages i need to see. Is there any way to do this?

My theory is that this is built into retroarch and un-changable, but who knows, there might be hope, haha.

rbaker

@Capeman So to answer this, you can turn them off. Here is the method.....

First, you will need to edit your retroarch.cfg file from this location: /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

To do this, I use winscp but you could use other methods including directly from the command line but winscp makes it easier. Below, I show my setup within that file:

# Size of the font rendered.
video_font_size = "12"

# Enable usage of OSD messages.
video_font_enable = false

# Offset for where messages will be placed on screen. Values are in range 0.0 to 1.0 for both x and y values. 
# [0.0, 0.0] maps to the lower left corner of the screen.
# video_message_pos_x = 0.05
# video_message_pos_y = 0.05

# Color for message. The value is treated as a hexadecimal value.
# It is a regular RGB hex number, i.e. red is "ff0000".
# video_message_color = ffffff

Notice how I changed true to false: video_font_enable = falselook at the comment line too.

It removes the messages. You will see from the other editable lines that if you wish to keep them, the position, the colour etc. can be altered but probably not the message itself. Now a good tip. The only reason that I know this is that I watch you tube tutorial videos occasionally. They are largely irrelevant to what I am doing with my setup but it is out of curiosity as to what others are setting up. Now as you watch them, little gems like this appear and you think to yourself yes, I have been wondering about this annoying message and boom it has gone. These are good educators.......here and here. Finally, reading through all the hashed out features, it's amazing to see what can be customized which is why this system remains number one for infinite options and setups. It's impossible to get bored. Sadly, or not, depending on your view, I am finding that configuring 1980's arcade machines is overtaking the playing of them!

Capeman

@rbaker i don't think this is what I meant. I am aware of the config to enable/disable/edit placement of messages... what I am asking is if it's possible to pick which messages are displayed and which are not.

Example, if I enable for psx: I'll see the load message, the reset message and the disk change message. What I want to know is if I can pick and choose which messages I see. I want to enable messages for psx, but only see "disk eject" "next disk" "previous disk" "close disk tray" - I want to hide all other messages.

As it stands, it seems like it's only "enable all" or "disable all"... I want to enable some.

herb_fargus

@Capeman nope. That requires custom coding.

Capeman

That's what I thought, thanks!

Arnulf

Maybe you can choose the system where you need this info for .
If you change retroarch.cfg in "all" directory, this is for all emulators.
Maybe you can change Settings only for selectec systems by editing /opt/retropie/configs/SYSTEMNAME/retroarch.cfg